neepheid

One rig. Mrs. Neepheid is very tolerant of my hobby, but there are limits. If my rig goes wrong, there's a feed from my pedalboard to the PA.

It means whatever you think it means

PA isn't bass specific, so you'll only be ruled out for extra credit.

Well I appreciate you taking this thread seriously. I think repairs are fair game, rules say as much, so I reckon it passes for this time. That refinish you're proposing next year, well, it's an odd one but I would say that it's frivilous, even if the bass had no finish it doesn't stop it performing as a bass so I would argue that's an elective and therefore put you in jeopardy. How bad is the finish as it stands now?

You'll have no bother flogging that RD once its here, given that there's a paucity of them in the local market, if difficulty of returning it is the sticking point?

I'm prepared for a succession of date slippages until they finally arrive. I don't know why they're being so specific - they're just making a rod for their backs when it turns out the supplier has been feeding them a line. Thomann just simply say a rough range of a few weeks and leave it at that. Interestingly, all the 4 string Z7s at Thomann are showing as "6-8 weeks" EXCEPT the burgundy which is "12-15 weeks". Guess which finish is the most popular/wanted then?

I bought a Yamaha BB1200 directly from Ishibashi in December. Excellent service, kept updated throughout, sturdy packaging. I'll be back. Slim local pickings for old school BBs, so I couldn't tell you how much I saved versus the local market. But I will say this - much better to go directly to Ishibashi than source via eBay, which seems to be rife with middlepersons who'll happily lump on a "finder's fee" onto the price - you're basically paying for them to buy it on your behalf then ship it to you. Not an entirely fair comparison, but looking at the cheapest BB1200 listed on eBay today, I saved about £200 going direct to Ishibashi.

Big Poppa == Sterling Ball, in case it's not clear.

July update: Well done everyone, only one person fell foul of the dreaded GAS in July, leaving 23 remaining. Strong GAS resistance, very impressive.

Well, you do you. Me personally, when the GAS hits I just decide I want a bass and I don't give a monkey's what any of you think about it. Have courage in your convictions! The Guild looks decent and sounds pretty good from what I've heard. I like that it's got a couple of tonal options with the push pull. I'd be interested but I don't like short scale basses.

That's just bad website updating - here's a video of someone playing a 5 string released in the last month - deffo has the reshaped lower horn...

Naw, the original stubbies did exist as prototypes at least - here's one being played at NAMM (including the 3+1 headstock that I guess EBMM took exception to) Heh, not a chance - if I don't like it I'll be returning it!

If there are none closeby that you can try, why don't you just buy one online and decide for yourself? You can always return it if it's not to your liking - and if physical stock is too far away for you to try then it'll be cheaper to courier it back than for you to toddle to where the basses are in person and come back home. Asking for other people's opinion here about something as subjective as sound I suspect is as counterproductive as the conclusions of the reviews you refer to - it's all opinion at the end of the day and ultimately the only person's opinion which matters in this situation is yours. What's your definition of "that vintage semi tone"? What is "that vintage semi tone" anyway? It appears that you know what you want to hear, so I say the most expedient way to figure it out is for you to get listening with your own ears.

Did you notice they reshaped it? Old on the left, new (and current) on the right. It's less stumpy now (not that I was put off by the old one), be happy that a company actually listened to people for once.

Z7 preorder placed...

My opinion is that Fender's gonna bin them in the next 3-ish years for the crime of not outselling the P bass, like they do with everything they issue forth that isn't their meat and potatoes.

I didn't say it couldn't be done, what I'm saying is it's not meant for that. It was not designed for that. It was designed to be a drop in replacement for the Gibson 2 point bridge, which no Epiphone has ever used. I also said "I have seen it used on Epiphones, but it takes work to make it work properly." The three point replacement, on the other hand IS designed to replace said bridge on both Gibson AND Epiphone basses and is supplied with both imperial and metric bolts. I don't know if the two point replacement comes with both types of bolt or not, because, again, it is designed to replace the Gibson 2 point bridge - an imperial only bridge which Gibson stopped using in 1973. Is that clearer?

See that looks way better than the stock photos. Why do companies frequently take such dull photography for their wares? I don't get it!

Thought I'd resurrect this thread to say that 1) I am deffo ordering a Z7 in "burgundy" and 2) I'd have had one already if you whingebags hadn't done all this obnoxiously loud hand wringing about the lower horn and grassing Sire up to EBMM (tongue firmly in cheek during point 2, in case it needs to be said)

Finally got off my arris and processed some video from last week. I know, the thread's not called "How was your gig last week?"

Sounds like the standard response to rationally pointing out that someone has overpriced an item, unfortunately.

You've got little chance with that broad a description - I've just taken a set that resemble that description off a £150 POS bass - you can bet the stock strings were some no-name bulk purchased nonsense. They could be almost anything. Sorry.

I appreciate that. Sometimes a thread on here will take on something of an authoritarian tone - you know, the finger wagging "you're doing it wrong" kind of tone and it really winds me up. People expressing opinions as fact, pretty standard. I'll try harder to let it wash over me in future - there probably are more important hills to die on.

I was bullied at school, and despite coming along in leaps and bounds in the intervening years, there will always be times where I read something and take it that way. Is that explanation sufficient for you?